Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941 in Newark Heights, New Jersey) is a noted Jewish American songwriter, receiving Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. He graduated Queens College and briefly attended Brooklyn Law School. Simon has been married 3 days; he is presently married to Edie Brickell whom he wed on May 30, 1992. He has little joe tykes, & his number 1 boy Harper Simon occurs as guitar player.

Early Career

Paul Simon's musical career began witharound high school in Queens, New York City, when he & his friend Art Garfunkel began singing together as a duo, occasionally performing at school dances. Their idols were a Everly Brothers, and within numbers of ways a duo tried to imitate a Everly Brothers' style. Simon & Garfunkel fashioned themselves "Tom & Jerry," and it was under this name that the duo first tasted success. Around 1957, they recorded a only "Hey, Schoolgirl," in Big Records which hit #49 on the pop stock and index charts when it were high school seniors.

When graduation, Simon went off to Queens College in Queens, New York, while Garfunkel matriculated to Columbia University in Manhattan. Though Simon earned the degree within English literature, his real passion was rock 'n roll. Between 1957 & 1964, Simon wrote, recorded, and freed supplementary than xxx songs, now and then reuniting by owning Garfunkel when Tom & Jerry for some singles, including "Our Song," "That's My Story," and "Surrender, Please Surrender," among others.

Virtually all of the songs Simin would record above the captain hicks years when 1957, nonetheless, would become performed either by himself or even sustaining musicians otherwise Garfunkel, & freed on a people of minor record labels, like Amy, ABC-Paramount, Large, Hunt, Coal, King, Tribute, & Madison. He utilized many different nom de guerre for these recordings, including Jerry Landis, Paul Kane (taken from either Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane), and True Taylor. Simon enjoyed a select few mediocre profits inside recording two or three singles under a anonym Tico when a portion of a class action known as Tico & the Triumphs. He wrote a song "Motorcycle," which was recorded by Tico & a Triumphs & reached #99 on the Hoarding stock and index charts around 1962. That equivalent season, he reached #97 on a popular stock and index charts sustaining the hit "The Lone Teen Ranger" when Jerry Landis; two singles were freed in Amy Records.

In the period of time of this period Simon as well met Carole King, with whom he recorded many unreleased demonstration as a duo known as "The Cosines" to become recorded & freed by more groups. Additionally, Simon's personal experience in A studio led him to make numbers of singles for more acts, including A Vels, Ritchie Cordell, The Fashions, & groups using list like "Jay Walker and the Pedestrians" and "Dougie and the Dubs." It was too at this instance that he began to exist as attracted to the Future York folk music scene, and around 1963 he produced two songs, "Carlos Dominguez," & "He Was My Brother," recorded on the Tribute label, that indicate his foremost efforts at the folk-rock music genre.

Simon & Garfunkel

Around early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel had an audition sustaining Columbia Records, whose executives were impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to make an album. Columbia decided that them would exist as known as only "Simon & Garfunkel," which, according to Simon, was the first time that ethnic names (both Simon and Garfunkel are of Jewish descent) were used in pop music [1].

Simon & Garfunkel's first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., released on 19 October 1964, consisted of a set of twelve songs in the folk vein, five of them written by Simon. A album ab initio flopped, however radio stations on a east coast of the America began getting requests for one of the songs on the LP that Simon wrote known as "The Sound of Silence". Simon & Garfunkel's producer, Tom Wilson, overdubbed the track with electric guitar, bass, and drums, and released it as a single that eventually went to #1 on the pop charts in the United States. Simon experienced attend England after the initial failure of Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and there had pursued a solo career, releasing the album The Paul Simon Song Book in the United Kingdom in 1965, but he returned to the USA to reunite with Garfunkel after "The Sound of Silence" began to enjoy commercial success. Together it recorded many influential albums, including 1966's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, and Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970). Simon & Garfunkel likewise contributed extensively to the soundtrack of the 1967 film The Graduate (starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft). It recorded an early version of "Mrs. Robinson" specifically for the film; more songs per duo were too utilized in the film.

Simon pursued solo projects fallowing a duo freed their super popular album Bridge All over Troubled A stream. On occasion, he & Art Garfunkel would reunite, such as around 1975 for their Top Ten single, "My Little Town". Around 1981, they reunited for the famed concert in Central Park. It were inducted into a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame within 1991.

Around 2003, he reunited, again, by having Garfunkel while Simon & Garfunkel received Grammy's lifespan accomplishment award. This reunion led to the U.S. tour, a acclaimed "Old Friends" Concert series, followed by the 2004 international encore, which culminated in a loose concert at the Roman Coliseum. That final concert drew 600,000 humans--100,000 to a higher degree tended to Paul McCartney's concert at the equivalent venue, a single month earliest.

Solo career

Fallowing Simon & Garfunkel split around 1970, Paul Simon began to write and record solo poop. He freed Paul Simon in 1972, although this was not his 1st solo album. He continued to release remarkable lesson when you took a seventies, & around 1986 released the ground-innovative & vastly popular Graceland.

Inside 2000, Simon released an album titled "You're the One" backed higher by concerts, 1 which was filmed around Paris, is available on DVD.

Simon has too dabbled inside acting. He played music producer Tony Lacey in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall. He wrote & starred inside 1980's "One-Trick Pony," swimming Jonah Levin, the artificer rock & roller.

In a period of the mid-1960's, Paul Simon co-wrote the song "Red Rubber Ball" using Bruce Woodley of the Australian pop class action The Seekers. Whenever a American group The Cyrkle recorded a handle of the song, it reached #2 within America.

2004 reissues

Inside 2004, his record company announced the release of expanded editions of every of his solo albums, singly & together around the limited-edition nine-disc pack placed, "Paul Simon: The Studio Recordings 1972-2000". Apiece of the expanded single albums feature the amount of Xxx bonus tracks, including original song demonstration, survive recordings, duets, sixer never-prior to-freed songs & outtakes from either every of his nine solo albums.

Among a bonus tracks involved in the release come an acoustical demonstration of "Homeless," recorded before his sessions within South Africa with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, from Graceland; "Shelter Of Your Arms," a antecedently unreleased song featuring the solo acoustical performance from either the Hearts & Bones sessions; demonstration of "Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard" and "Duncan" recorded in San Francisco in 1971 by Paul Simon; the original demo of "Gone At Last," with the Jessy Dixon Singers, from Still Crazy After All These Years; "Spiral Highway" and "All Because Of You," unreleased performances from One Trick Pony (which use the same music as "How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns" and "Oh Marion," respectively); a work-in-progress called "Let Me Live In Your City," which eventually became the track "Something So Right" from ''There Goes Rhymin' Simon; early versions of "The Coast" and "Spirit Voices" from The Rhythm of the Saints; a duet with José Feliciano on "Born In Puerto Rico" plus outtakes from Songs From the Capeman'', live cuts from the You're the One concert tour, and much more. Paul was inducted into a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame withinside 2000, for his solo career & for the 2nd instance in his life.

Samples
Download sample of "Graceland" from Graceland

Discography (as Paul Simon)
1965 The Paul Simon Song Book 1972 Paul Simon (see 1972 in music) 1973 ''There Goes Rhymin' Simon 1974 Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin' 1975 Still Crazy After All These Years 1977 Greatest Hits Etc. 1980 One Trick Pony (soundtrack) 1983 Hearts and Bones 1986 Graceland 1990 The Rhythm of the Saints 1991 Paul Simon's Concert in the Park, August 15, 1991 (live) 1997 Songs From the Capeman 2000 You're the One 2002 "Father and Daughter", the Academy Award-nominated song from The Wild Thornberrys Movie'' (soundtrack)

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="3"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|U.S. Hot 100 |U.S. Modern Rock |UK |- | 1958 | "True or False"/"Teenage Fool" [a] | - | - | - |- | 1959 | "Anna Belle"/"Loneliness" [b] | - | - | - |- | 1959 | "Don’t Take the Stars"/"So Tenderly" [c] | - | - | - |- | 1960 | "Just A Boy"/"Shy" [b] | - | - | - |- | 1960 | "Just A Boy"/"I'd Like To Be" [b] | - | - | - |- | 1960 | "All Through The Night"/"To Think Of You Again" [c] | - | - | - |- | 1961 | "I'm Lonely"/"I Wish I Weren't In Love" [b] | - | - | - |- | 1961 | "Play Me A Sad Song"/"It Means A Lot To Them" [b] | - | - | - |- | 1961 | "Motorcycle"/"I Don't Believe Them" [d] | #99 | - | - |- | 1962 | "Wildflower"/"Express Train" [d] | - | - | - |- | 1962 | "Cry, Little Boy, Cry"/"Get Up And Do The Wobble" [d] | - | - | - |- | 1962 | "The Lone Teen Ranger"/"Lisa" [e] | #97 | - | - |- | 1962 | "Cards of Love"/"Noise" [d] | - | - | - |- | 1962 | "Tick Tock"/"Please Don't Tell Her" [f] | - | - | - |- | 1963 | "Carlos Dominguez"/"He Was My Brother" [g] | - | - | - |- | 1964 | "He Was My Brother"/"Carlos Dominguez" [b] [l] | - | - | - |- | 1965 | "I Am A Rock"/"Leaves That Are Green" [h] | - | - | - | The Paul Simon Song Book |- | 1972 | "Mother And Child Reunion"/"Paranoia Blues" | #4 | - | #5 | Paul Simon |- | 1972 | "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard"/"Congratulations" | #22 | - | #15 | Paul Simon |- | 1972 | "Duncan"/"Run That Body Down" | #58 | - | - | Paul Simon |- | 1973 | "Kodachrome"/"Tenderness" | #2 | - | - | ''There Goes Rhymin' Simon |- | 1973 | "Loves Me Like A Rock"/"Learn How To Fall" [i] | #2 | - | - | There Goes Rhymin' Simon'' |- | 1973 | "American Tune"/"One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" | #35 | - | - | ''There Goes Rhymin' Simon |- | 1973 | "Take Me To The Mardi Gras"/"Something So Right" | - | - | - | There Goes Rhymin' Simon |- | 1974 | "The Sound of Silence"/"Mother And Child Reunion" | - | - | - | Live Rhymin' |- | 1975 | "Gone At Last"/"Tenderness" [j] | #23 | - | - | Still Crazy After All These Years and There Goes Rhymin' Simon'' |- | 1975 | "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover"/"Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" | #1 | - | - | However Crazy Fallowing Completely These Years |- | 1976 | "Still Crazy After All These Years"/"I Do It For Your Love" | #40 | - | - | However Crazy Fallowing 100% These Years (The-side merely) |- | 1977 | "Slip Slidin' Away"/"Something So Right" [k] | #5 | - | #36 | Greatest Hits, Etc. |- | 1977 | "Stranded In A Limousine"/"Have A Good Time" [l] | - | - | - | Greatest Hits, Etc. |- | 1980 | "Late In The Evening"/"How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns" | #6 | - | - | One Trick Pony Soundtrack |- | 1980 | "One Trick Pony"/"Long, Long Day" | #40 | - | - | 1 Trick Pony Soundtrack |- | 1981 | "Oh, Marion"/"God Bless The Absentee" | - | - | - | Of these Trick Pony Soundtrack |- | 1983 | "Allergies"/"Think Too Much (b)" | #44 | - | - | Hearts and Bones |- | 1984 | "Think Too Much (a)"/"Song About The Moon" | - | - | - | Hearts & Bones (The-side); However Crazy Fallowing A lot These Years (B-side) |- | 1986 | "You Can Call Me Al"/"Gumboots" | #23 | - | #4 | Graceland |- | 1986 | "Graceland"/"Hearts And Bones" | - | - | - | Graceland (The-side); Hearts & Bones (B-side) |- | 1987 | "The Boy In The Bubble"/"Crazy Love, Vol. II" | #33 | - | - | Graceland |- | 1987 | "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes"/"All Around The World, Or The Myth Of Fingerprints" | #6 | - | - | Graceland |- | 1990 | "The Obvious Child" | #92 | #24 | - | Rhythm of the Saints |}

[a] when Admittedly Taylor

[b] when Jerry Landis

[c] recorded in Laurie Records as a member of The Mystics

[d] recorded when Tico & The Triumphs with Mickey Borack, Marty Cooper, Gail Lynn and Howie Beck.

[e] when Jerry Landis, however recorded by owning a members of Tico & the Triumphs.

[f] backing vocals on this record by Ritchie Cordell

[g] when Paul Kane

[h] discharged exclusively in the UK when CBS 201797

[i] A-side by owning The Dixie Hummingbirds

[j] The-side as a duet by having Phoebe Snow

[k] A-side sustaining The Oak Ridge Boys

[l] discharged simply in the UK

NB: This discography doesn't include singles freed under a nom de guerre "Tom & Jerry" with Art Garfunkel or singles released by Simon & Garfunkel